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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-07-20
The Deadly Cigarette.

A distressed father sends to the sani-
tary headquarters of New York the
following wall of despair:
I am the father of four boys, and
two of them are cigarette smokers
one twelve and the other fourteen
years. I notice their health failing,
and send them to a physician. He
says it is from smoking cigarettes. /
have begged them to desist, but with
out avail. 1 have punished them in
various ways, but they seem to have
acquired a habit which it is almost
next to impossible to check. Their
school companions also smoke. Be-
sides this, the photos which the manu-
facturers pack in the boxes are of such
vulgar descriptions that alone will
ruin our young men, besides Destroy
ing their health with the poisonous
cigarettes. You will confer great
blessing on the people of the city by
rising up against the monstrous crime
of which the manufacturers of these
cigarettes are guilty. They ought to
be taxed out of existence. There was
a bill introduced in our Legislature a
few years ago prohibiting the. sale OF
cigarettes to boys under fourteen.
Bribery was used to defeat it. know
it to be a fact. Yours with respect.
An aggrieved parent.
WILLIAM CoNRoY.
Mr.. Conroy seems to feel an interest
in his sons. He would like to see
them grow to perfect manhood. He
would rejoice to see them robust, clear
headed and undetiled in mind and
body.
But, alas, for the hopes of Mr.. Con-
roy. He finds that the deadly ciga-
rette is bigger man than ne is. He
finds that the miserable little roll OF
sorry tobacco has stolen vigor from the
limbs Of his boys and left them physi-
cal wrecks Oh the very threshold Of
youth.
The most painful part of Mr.. Con.
roy's letter is his despairing reference
to the obscene pictures. No longer
conteuted with destroying the health
of boys, certain manufacturers of ciga'
retles now put into each package al
obscene photograph. The effect is
most pernicious.
Cigarettes, accompanied by pictures
not good for the youths OF the land tt
see, are sold by the thousand in At
lamla. 1t is a wonder that some Of the
leaders in our moral reform move
ments have not looked into the obscene
picture business that is going hand III
hand with the cigarette traffic.
1t may be there is no way to reacl
the cigarettes and the pictures. There
is certainly q way to reach the boy
who insists OH smoking the one ant
feasting his eyes on the other. Tht
way to reach such boy is to reacl
him with the loose end of a buggy
trace. It will not kill him, and i
may possibly cure him. The cigarette
habit is Il desperate disease and re
uuires heroic treatment.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-07-20
THE MISSION OF THE PRESS.

The Nurse of Domestic Purity and
the Guardian of Public virtue--
The Handmaid of Religion and
the Bulwark of Liberty The
Great Educator at the Fireside
the Market Place. and the Forum
PREMIUMS TO BE AWARDED:
s25 for the Best Essay or Story;
SIS for the Second Best Essay or Story.
The essays or stories tending to show
l. The value of properly conducted press
as teacher and exemplar.
2. The moral obligation resting upon pa
rents to furnish proper newspapers to their
households.
8. Convincing arguments that money spent
for newspapers is worth more to the general
welfare of the family than any equal sum OF
money spent for any other purpose.
4. Besides the above, any other thoughts or
suggestions which may go to impress the peo.
pie with the fact that the newspaper is scarce
ly less important to the family and the youth
of the country than the school teacher and
the pulpit orator.
The undersigned desiring to give increased
interest to the columns of the Press and Ban
ner, proposes to award the above named pre-.
miums to the best and second best essay or
story, upon the subject indicated.
Awards will be made by a committee OF
three disinterested gentlemen.
The essays or stories to be handed in by the
first Of September next, the writers giving as
sumed names, and keeping back their true
names and places Of residences until the
awards have been made. This is to insure
perfect impartiality in giving awards.
The committee will have the right to with
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essays or stories fail to merit the prizes offered.
All essays or stories submitted to be the
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Address PRESS AND BANNER,
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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-07-20

Many are apt t. imagine that repen-
tance is nothing but q concern and sor-
row for having done am;ss, and trust
ing that God, for Christ's sake, will
pardon them and too many place re-
pentance in protesting TO be sorry for
their sins, and promising not to repeat
them; and are satisfied with this,
without any serious endeavors OF
amendment. Most Christians, too,
imagine that repentance is in their
own power; that they can set about it
and perform it when they please, and
do not know that it is the gift of God,
and that it must, as all other graces, be
asked of God with earnestness, hunil-
ity, and with a sincere desire of for
saking every evil way.
God will appear to them in a way Of
grace, that attend on him in a way OF
duty.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-07-20

Teacher (in geography class
"What is desert ?n
Young Student-"Don'tkn mum,
I always eat at the second table"
No farmer who buys oats, corn OF
wheat, fodder and hay, as rule, for
ten years, can keep the sheriff away
from his door in the end.
Remember, "God and one man make
a majority"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-07-20

Work AS A MEDIClNE.-You lave
nothing to do-how easily you yield to
indispositon.
You have an engagement, you have
all article to write, IL dress 70 make, Il
field to till, harvest to gather, Il horse
to groom, Il store to open, an occupa-
ton of some sort or other whose call is
peremptory and must be obeyed +
what a stillener of nerve and muscles
an engagement is. How infinitely
less prone one is to yield to all indis-
position, pain or Il suggestion OF idle
ness and case.
Work is the best medicine.
Exercise is its right hand man. Oc'
cupation is what mankind needs, and
lust as soon as we retire from life we
may begin TO prepare for death, fol
life is quick imitator, and will retire
from us, acting Oil the hint given, thrt
we are weary OF the burden and w.si
to shake it.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-07-20
(Ordngebury Times and Democrat

The idea that the quiet, decent ob-
servance Of the Sabbath us Il day OF
rest is concomitaut of civilization
appears to be gaining ground in som-
of the cities where il has been the Gus
tom. to allude to all Sunday laws y
"blue laws" The movement agains
Sunday baseball playing is gainin!
strength III all the principal cities
there is feeling among the besv
friends of the sport that eitber the ma
tional game or the Sunday playing of
it must 90.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-07-20

Sir Charles Napier said, that "to
oN come all feeling of religion is gen
orally the means of making warrior" "
He who prevents confagration de-
serves more credit than those who put
out the fire after it has done a vast
amount of damage.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-07-20
Things Said and Done.

The character of each of you is the
product of your inner life. 1t is the
result of your thinking, your feeling,
and your willing. Be careful, then, OF
what and how you think, that your
intellect may be more and more re-
sponsive to truth. Guard your emo
tions, the springs of action, that they
may be pure and strong, delicately re-
sponsive to all that is worthy. And
take heed that your will, the arbiter OF
your destiny, steadily gains power to
hold to your convictions Of truth, OF
right, and of duty. So shall you gain
in increasing degree the ability to di-
rect and to develop the true life of hui
man souls. Never forget that intiu-
ence flowing from character is lasting.
Let this thought clothe your work
with its proper dignity. Sounds
Idle in yon rich sky;
They faint III hill, Or field, Or river;
Uur echoes roll from soul TO soul,
Ind live forever and forever"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-07-20
(Fuller.)

When in my writing I have occa-
sion to insert these passages, "liod
willing" "God lending me life," etc.
l observe that cali scarce huld my
hand from eucirciing these words in u
parenthesis, as If they were not essen-
tial to the sentence, but may as well
be left out as put III. Whereas, III
deed they are not only of the commits
sion at large, but so of the quorum,
that without them all the rest Is moth
ing; wherefore, hereafter I will write
these words fully and fairly without
any inclosure about them. Let critics
censure it for bad grammar, l am sure
it is good divinity.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-07-20
What Others Say.
(NeW York Christian Advocate.)

He CoNFESSES IT.-At the meeting
of the Maine Conference Chaplain
M'Cabe exhibited to us the following
/ extract:
The Western Waterman, a Roman
Catholic paper published in st. Louis,
says:
PRoTEsTANTIsM.--Ye would draw
and quarter it. We would empale
and hang it up for crows meat. We
would tear it with pipcers and fire it
with hot irons. We would fill it with
molten lead and sink it in a hundred
fathoms of hell-fire.
We expressed doubt as to its having
appeared exactly as quoted, and re-
quested the Chaplain to write to the
Editor of the Western Wdtchnaan.
He did so, and the Editor returned
the extract with this sentence added,
"But would not lay an ungentle hand
OH hair in Protestant's head" and
then wrote, "That is the sentence in
full. E. S. PHELAN.
Well, the Roman Catholic Church
never changes. We would hate to
trust ourselves in many country in
this world in the hands of man be-
longing to an infallible Church, the
Church of st. Bartholomew and the
Auto Da Fe, whose rhetoric woul
reach so sanguinary height as thi
| We fear that to make sure of DRAWN
and quartering Professionalism, and
impaling and hanging it up for crow
meat, of tearing it with pincers all
firing it with hot irons, it would be
conceived to be the best way to SUBJ
ject Protestants to all these things.
is singular fact that every figure
of speech in this extract finds historic
illustration in the methods and instru-
ments of the Inquisition.
Not long since an Episcopal clergy
man shot his wife in a fit of anger.
Subsequently, when he was about to
be tried for the crime, he committed
suicide, and the evidence seemed to
show that it was not a case of lunacy,
but unbridled passion. Now a Metho-
dist minister in North Carolina, who
was accidentally struck by ball
thrown by a boy, who at once ran for
ward and begged pardon, knocked
him down, stamped upon him, and
dragged him about until the boys
united and drove him away. The
boy, however, was so injured that he
soon died. The minister called to the
boys later and upbraided them for not
dragging their schoolmate away soon
er, and said he did hot know what he
was doing; that his temper for the
time had craZed him. He that ruleth
his own spirit is greater than he that
taketh city," The control of the
temper must begin in childhood, and
continue without intermission to the
end of life. Men who commit crimes
under the influence of passion should
be dealt with severely. 1t is dis
grace to any sane man to get into such
u state that he does moi know what he
is doing; but when IL minister OF the
Gospel gets into paroxysm of rage it
is dishonorable to the Christian pro-
fession as well as to the man. Such
cases ending in crime should be Sc
verely punished.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-07-20
The Reign Of Queen Victoria.

EXTRACTS FROM A SERMON PREACH
ED IN 1887, AT ST. PAUL's CA
THEDRAL, BY THE REV. SIDNEY
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-05-21

The genial BILL NYE will probably
find out when it is too late that he made
a mistake when he deserted his vine
covered cottage on the Western prairies
to enter the field of Eastern journalism.
The Eastern people laughed at WILL
IAM's humor as long as he lived in the
far West. Now he will realize that dis
lance leads enchantment to the Ameri-
can humOrist.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-05-21
DE MOREs' DOWNFALL.

Northwestern people, however much
they will regret it, will hardly be sur
priSed at the news that the Marquis DE
MoRES. well-known in st, Paul, Dakota
and Montana. has become involved in
new business difficulties and is about
closing up his affairs preparatory to
returning to France. 1t will also be Il
matter of regret. both on DE MoRES' ac-
count personally and because of the
benefit that would have accrued to the
Northwest generally had his schemes
been brought to a successful conSum-
nation. that failure should have over
taken him. DE MoREs deserves credit
for unusual energy and the honesty of
his intentions. Unlike so many of his
class. he was unwilling to live life of
ingl0riouS ease, but came to this coun-
try because he thought that, with his al
most unlimited means, he saw an OPP
pOrtunity for making career for him
self in business life. That certainly
vas TO his credit.
The opportunity did exist and the
schemes which DE MeREs planned will
probably some day be carried
oHt. The fault was no in any
lack OF effort upon his part but
dne to the fact that it was misdirected
effort combined with utter ineXperi-
ence. Through his complete lack of
knowledge OF business methods he Be-
lieved it possible to walk before he had
learned to crawl. He did not realize the
bGhlness of the very schemes he had him
self conceived, and in attempting to carry
them out without any knowledge of the
necessary details he was naturally i'm
posed upon by designing men, some of
whom were his own subordinates, and
inevitably met with failure.
His plan for bringing meat from the
range to the consumer may some day
be realized. 1t would be to the manifest
advantage of the Northwest to have it
successfully carried into effect, but it
will have to be by men who thoroughly
know what they are about. DE MORES,
however. deserves credit for recognize
ing the existing opportunity and for do
ing his utmost to take advantage of it.
His Dakota experiences demonstrated
that he is man of pluck and courage,
omere dilietante, and it may be that
. he will return to the scene of action bet
ter equipped by the knowledge of the
mistakes he has made, to aid in the
Northwest's development.
In the meanwhile people who know
something about him will be slow
to believe that the complications in
which he is now involved and which
seem to have brought about his appar-
ent downfall are the result of any will
full wrongtloing on his part, but will at
tribute them ratherto his ignorance of
the practical details of business life.
In any event, though, after earnestly
trying TO succeed, DEMoREs has made
failure of his. commercial career, he is
far more deserving of respect than the
pampered aristocratS who have never
done an honest days labor in their lives
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-05-21

|, When Ed Bean marched down Third
street ahead of Company d, last night,
his helmet seemed to be about three
feet higher than the Manufacturer block.
F. The smiles on the faces of all Duluth
men, after the team had beaten the ST.
Paul men, could be distinguished for
thirteen blocks without the aid of a
glass.
Jimmy O'Brien was seen going to the
base ball game, and through the small
end of the GLOBES SpyglaSS he was
Paul win game last year; it will pay
John Barnes to hire me to keep away"
The red lights adjacent to sewer eX-
cavations present very uniform ap-
pearance along Ramsey street, near
Summit avenue, but the sidewalk is
completely Obliterated on the north side.
What were thought to be tall houses
in st. Paul are dwarfed almost into in
significance from the tower, the roofs
all being below the eighth story of the
GLOBE.
Loose shoes can be seen rafting on
the hoofS of the night liners even at this
altitude.
Only one crank has locked out with
suicidal tendencies, and he changed his
mind.
A darkey was detected making off
with big combination ticket from the
Turf Exchange.
Editor George Kidder Show, ex-Rail-
road Commissioner S. S. Murdoch and
Orator w. n. Severance were observed
walking around the city with arms
locked, and looking for desirable site
for their new Matchmaking machine
plant.
A barber in an adjacent shop was
noticed manipulating an old bears
mustache and whiskeas.
Senator Davis was seen looking for
lawyer who was opposed to him but
whom "a neuralgia attack kept away
from cOurt
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-05-21
THE KING OF nrOSopoLIEs.

THE KING OF NIOSOPOLIES.
1t turns out that what has generally
been supposed to be the greatest of all
soullesS corporations, the Standard Oil
company, Is no corporation at ali. 1t is
the king of monopolies, and yet it has
no legal existence. 1t is sort of nom
descript in the business world. an in
tangible affair, which, as stated by
PRESIDENT RoCKERFELLER in his teSti-
mony on the trial of the Buffalo con-
splratorS, lis as powerful as it is inVis-
lble.' Mr. RocKERFELLER describes
this mammoth monopoly as being
neither corporation nor copartnerShip,
but simply an association of persons and
firms engaged in oil refining who have
pooled their business interests and
placed them under the management of
board Of trustees. Being unknown to
the law,th great American Guyasticu
sponsibility for its acts. 1t is an all
powerful combination, which does not
hesitate to assert control, but doeS.moSt
absolutely refuse to recognize any
power competent to control it. :, The
Standard Oil Trust assumes Ito be a
kingdom unto ITSELF 1t is its
own ruler, its own law-maker,
its own Judge, and numbers among
Its subjects every business or in
duStrial interest which lies within the
pathway of.its progress. 1t is an ava
ricious monarch which seeks to bring
everything within the reach of its grasp
ing hand under its domination. 1t
counts its wealth by the millions and
hundreds of millions, and can lock or
unlock the banks of the country at its
will. 1t dictates to railroad companies
and fixes its own rates of transporta-
ton. 1t is defiant of state laws because
it controls the state legislatures 1t can
afford to laugh the Judiciary to scorn
because it selects the judges. 1t is a
tyrant which has noreSpect for its infer
lorS. Such is,Or rather Sueh has been, the
course pursued by this gigantic monop-
oily. But the recent verdict rendered
by the Buffalo jury of twelve tried and
honest men has proved to be the first
effective blow dealt at the Standard Oil
company. For the first time the Stand
ard magnateS are made to realize that
there is limit to their power. They
have been brought to consciousness
of the fact that there is a ruler in this
country who possesses power superior
to theirs. That ruler is the honest
yeoman who sits in the jury box and
renders an impartial verdict according
to the law and the evidence. When we
recall all that the Standard Oil company
has been and then see it brought to bay
by twelve plain American citizens, ten
OF them farmers, one taller and the
twelfth locomotive engineer, our faith
in American institutions receives fresh
baptism. There is no monarch so Sill
preme as the common people of Amer
lea. We feel constrained to sound a
note of alleluia and call upon all the
world to stand still and witness the
salvation of our American democracy.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-05-21
THE FOREST FIRES.

The destruction of the town of Lake
Linden Mich. by the forest firest fires
and the imminent danger of Marquette
emphasizes the statements recently made
by the GLOBE that an immense amount
of property could be annually saved by
the institution of some means OF forest
protection or some organized system of
fighting the fires.
While a regular patrol would
of course be impracticable, some
regular system of inspection might
be maintained during the sea-
son when forest fires are to
be expected. A fire early discovered
and vigorously fought might at least be
checked before it had an opportuny to
destroy millions OBJECT of lumber and
scores Of houses. 1t is very probable
that the most of the fires originate
through sparks from passing locomotive
engines. 1t is quite conceivable that
this source of danger might be removed
by compelling the adoption of cinder
screens upon all engines passing
through the forest district. The exper-
iment is at least worth trial. Unless
somt thing is speedily done the North
west will find itself denuded of forests.
In the meanwhile measures looking
to the relief of the people rendered
homeless by the fires might we'll be in
Stitutpd
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-05-21
DAKOTA,s RAILROADS.

The recent visit of prominent Dako-
tianS to this city for the purpose of con-
ferring withrailWay officials shows that
the Dakota people strongly realize the
value of satisfactory communication by
rail- with their markets and the immense
stimulus to development which such
communication provides.
While, with but single line of rail
way they are almost absolutely depend
emf upon the whim of the company's
managers, with several routes open
they gain the advantage of competition,
which enables them to be independent
of any one. 1t may be that at present
there is not business enough to warrant
the building of all the roads which the
Dakota people desire and expect, but
with the rapid settlement which would
FOLLOW their construction, they would
SOON reap their reward
We do not think, however. that il is
exactly reasonable on the part of the
roads to ask bonus from the different
towns which may desire to secure them.
The business of these thriving embryo
cities is an object to the railroad
companies and, OH the score of
self-iuterest alone, in nine eases out
often they would build TO them anyhow.
Of course, instances arise where a
road would not find it profitable to run
iato q town withent the bonus, but
they are the exception. 1t is not right
that the people shoald help pay for the
building of q road, where its construc-
tiols would be rs profitable 10 IFS owners
as 81 would be advantageous 10 The peo-
pie themselves.
Daaota owes a great deal 10 the rail-